John Metta’s piece, I, Racist, is one of the best things I read this week. Written a year ago after the Charleston Church killings, it’s a perceptive and powerful analysis of why his conversations about race with white people tend to break down and become unproductive. A really important analysis for white people to read, reflect, and act upon.

Rafranz Davis frames Another Night, Another Shooting from the perspective of being the mother of a black son and wonders what the new rules are that will keep our sons safe and alive.

As the mother of a son who “interrupt[s] injustice at every opportunity,” I found some comfort and hope in Sabrina Stevens’s words about how we have to parent our children from a place of love and joy, not fear, and her reminder that “nothing can save us from state violence, except ending state violence.”